078 The Ghost Bird with Neil Hamilton

For almost 30 years, ornithologist, Neil Hamilton has been caring for, working with and studying birds, and many of Australia's unique animals. Beginning as teenager at Tooronga Zoo, Neil has gone on to senior keeper positions at Perth Zoo, and moved on to practical conservation work and research with the WA government. Neil has devoted much of his time in recent years studying the elusive Ghost Bird of the Australian Outback, the Night Parrot, listed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN , with perhaps as few as 200 mature individuals existing out there in the dry spinifex plains of the Western Australian desert. In this episode, Neil talks about his career working to understand and protect birds, and organising teams of Ghost Bird volunteers to seek out the Night Parrot on regular survey trips. Follow Neil on Twitter to keep up to date with what he and the team are up to. Follow The Bird Emergency on Twitter @birdemergency or Instagram @thebirdemergency You can support the show by making a contribution by buying Grant a coffee here -

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078 The Ghost Bird with Neil Hamilton is an episode from The Bird Emergency by Grant Williams.

This episode is 01:08:27 long.

This episode was published on Sep 28, 2022.

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